N-O. West German government sources confirmed Monday that...

June 23, 1987

BONN, WEST GERMANY — N-O. West German government sources confirmed Monday that Bonn plans to reject a 5-month-old U.S. request to extradite Mohammed Ali Hamadi, an accused Lebanese terrorist. Instead, Hamadi will be tried in West Germany for murder, hijacking and plotting to cause an explosion. The government is convinced that extraditing Hamadi would endanger the lives of two West German businessmen held in Lebanon by kidnappers seeking Hamadi's release, the sources said. But the United States hasn't given up. U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese, who arrives here today for a one-day official visit, will make a final appeal for the extradition of Hamadi. Hamadi allegedly was one of the terrorists who staged the June 1985 hijacking of a TWA jet airliner in which Navy diver Robert Stethem was killed.